Cold and darkness
Even birds grew sick and perished,
men and maidens, faint and famished,
perished in the cold and darkness,
from the absence of the sunshine,
from the absence of the moonlight. . . .
But the wise men of the Northland
could not know the dawn of morning,
for the moon shines not in season
nor appears the sun at midday,
from their stations in the sky-vault.
The Kalevala, Rune 49. (Per Velikovsky 1950:135)
With this footnote: "4 Crawford, in the Preface to the English translation of the Kalevala, refers the poem to a time when Hungarians and Finns were still united as one people, "in other words, to a time at least three thousand years ago."